Xhosa women

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Xhosa women in traditional dresses sing and dance as they wait for the hearse carrying the coffin of South African former president Nelson Mandela on December 14, 2013 at his former homeland in Qunu where he will be buried tomorrow. Mandela, the revered icon of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and one of the towering political figures of the 20th century, died in Johannesburg on December 5 at age 95.

Xhosa women in traditional dresses sing and dance as they wait for the hearse carrying the coffin of South African former president Nelson Mandela on December 14, 2013 at his former homeland in Qunu where he will be buried tomorrow. Mandela, the revered icon of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and one of the towering political figures of the 20th century, died in Johannesburg on December 5 at age 95. (GIANLUIGI GUERCIA / AFP/Getty Images)

Xhosa women in traditional dresses sing and dance as they wait for the hearse carrying the coffin of South African former president Nelson Mandela on December 14, 2013 at his former homeland in Qunu where he will be buried tomorrow. Mandela, the revered icon of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and one of the towering political figures of the 20th century, died in Johannesburg on December 5 at age 95.